
“I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.”
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
"Alice's Law of Compensatory Cash Flow" in Alice, Let's Eat (1978) ("Alice" was his wife, Alice Trillin)
“I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.”
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
2015, Town Hall meeting with Young Leaders of the Americas (April 2015)
Source: The circuit flow of money, 1922, p. 264
“If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.”
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
“But money can always and everywhere be spent, and, moreover, forbidden fruit is sweetest of all.”
The House of the Dead https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=8PhfAAAAMAAJ&rdid=book-8PhfAAAAMAAJ&rdot=1 (1915), as translated by Constance Garnett, p. 16
Context: Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it. But money can always and everywhere be spent, and, moreover, forbidden fruit is sweetest of all.
“The day, even when it is at the longest, is quickly spent.”
Quamquam longissimus, dies cito conditur.
Letter 36, 4.
Letters, Book IX
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”
Reported in " Best: Decline of the golden boy http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4090840.stm", BBC News (June 14 2005).